03-01-2015, 12:17 AM
poem opens with place - "Long before..." a stretch of time is in view, "long" -
decades or centuries does not matter except as "scattered pages...cracked memories" making homes in "heart-houses" - but such place became "unreachable" - having invoked the presence of this the poet must now ramp up, warpspeed Mr. Zulu ! - to emerge in the present "Suddenly" where "hurling tides" rattle our core - ... ok, it goes on in this matter to the end - what has happened here is our (or the) love of words has made us drunk with vision - every writer faces this enemy, or obstacle, every time he/she picks up a pen or approaches a keyboard - after all the shining metaphors here, all the flights of fancy, we come to the final stanza where,
"I finally return to that tattered home
with a guiding soul beside me"
... which, according to the final line of the first stanza is, "unreachable"
a dichotomy with no hope of even an imaginative leap of transcendance can cross -
perhaps less would do more - less vision, more faith -
less sky walking, more focus on what is possible
3zu out -
write on, poets, write on !
decades or centuries does not matter except as "scattered pages...cracked memories" making homes in "heart-houses" - but such place became "unreachable" - having invoked the presence of this the poet must now ramp up, warpspeed Mr. Zulu ! - to emerge in the present "Suddenly" where "hurling tides" rattle our core - ... ok, it goes on in this matter to the end - what has happened here is our (or the) love of words has made us drunk with vision - every writer faces this enemy, or obstacle, every time he/she picks up a pen or approaches a keyboard - after all the shining metaphors here, all the flights of fancy, we come to the final stanza where,
"I finally return to that tattered home
with a guiding soul beside me"
... which, according to the final line of the first stanza is, "unreachable"
a dichotomy with no hope of even an imaginative leap of transcendance can cross -
perhaps less would do more - less vision, more faith -
less sky walking, more focus on what is possible
3zu out -
write on, poets, write on !